Israel was told ‘you are not alone’ – but year of war has left it isolated

Those messages will clash because today unlike three decades ago everyone reads and hears and sees everything, so gone are the days when you can compartmentalise between different audiences and when you can say one thing in Hebrew and think that the international media will not pick up on it,

In difficult times, Germany has only one place and that is by Israel’s side.” ... The unspeakable has emerged from the depths of history.”

Olaf Scholz, the chancellor of Germany – a country that sees Israel’s survival as a national responsibility – also visited and delivered a similar promise of unconditional solidarity ... The French president, Emmanuel Macron, was equally unrestrained in his criticism of Hamas, saying